Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κυναγός

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυναγός κυναγοῦ

Structure: κυναγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: doric and attic for kunhgo/s

Sense

  1. a hound-leader, a huntsman

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ τῆσ κυναγοῦ δ’ ἄλλοσ Ἀταλάντησ γόνοσ παῖσ Παρθενοπαῖοσ, εἶδοσ ἐξοχώτατοσ, Ἀρκὰσ μὲν ἦν, ἐλθὼν δ’ ἐπ’ Ἰνάχου ῥοὰσ παιδεύεται κατ’ Ἄργοσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:3)
  • ὢ δεῦρ’ ἴθι δεῦρ’ ὦ κυναγὲ παρσένε. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, lyric6)
  • κἀν τῷδε πέτραν ἅτεροσ λιπὼν ξένοιν ἔστη κάρα τε διετίναξ’ ἄνω κάτω κἀπεστέναξεν ὠλένασ τρέμων ἄκρασ, μανίαισ ἀλαίνων, καὶ βοᾷ κυναγὸσ ὥσ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 2:3)
  • καὶ πρῶτα μὲν προσῆγε Νηίταισ πύλαισ λόχον πυκναῖσιν ἀσπίσιν πεφρικότα ὁ τῆσ κυναγοῦ Παρθενοπαῖοσ ἔκγονοσ, ἐπίσημ’ ἔχων οἰκεῖον ἐν μέσῳ σάκει, ἑκηβόλοισ τόξοισιν Ἀταλάντην κάπρον χειρουμένην Αἰτωλόν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 2:1)
  • ἀλλά νιν πάλιν κυναγὸσ ὡσεὶ παῖσ σὸσ ἐξαθροίζεται, πύργοισ δ’ ἐπέστησ’ αὖθισ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 11:3)

Synonyms

  1. a hound-leader

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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